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Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 517.5 | The 2nd State of Independent SaaS Survey is Live

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9819 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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0:00.0

Hi there, Rob Walling here, co-founder of MicroConf.

0:07.0

Last year, we launched the inaugural State of Independent SaaS Survey to take a look at the who, what, when, where, and how much of the global bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped SaaS industry.

0:17.0

We opened the curtain on the segment of SaaS that isn't chasing after venture funding

0:21.2

and discovered things like, we're spread across the globe in more than 340 cities, 56% of us

0:27.5

are single founders, and three out of four of us who offer a free trial do not ask for credit

0:32.1

card up front. The microconv state of independent SaaS report serves as the only deep look

0:37.4

at non-venture

0:38.4

track SaaS benchmarks and metrics.

0:41.1

When we began, our hope was to update it every year, and I'm here to announce that the

0:44.7

2021 State of Independent SaaS Survey is now open.

0:48.6

You might be wondering if you should complete this survey.

0:51.3

It's for SaaS companies making at least $1 in monthly recurring revenue who have not

0:55.7

raised traditional venture capital. Maybe you're bootstrapped or self-funded. You've raised from

1:00.7

friends and family or angels or one of the independent funding sources like Tinyseed or Indy.vc.

1:06.6

Do yourself in the community a favor. Head over to state ofindysass.com

1:11.0

and spend less than 10 minutes to complete the survey,

1:13.7

which covers a range of topics unique to our world,

1:16.6

across marketing, metrics, operations, founder backgrounds, and more.

1:21.4

As a special thank you,

1:22.4

will include the Marketing Insights bonus chapter in your report

1:25.1

when we release it in January.

1:27.5

Feel free to share the survey on the socials and be sure to tag hashtag microconf.

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